25 Free Architecture Books You Can Read Online. Best Literary Characters. One of the things literature does better than almost any other medium is allow us to experience another person’s quality of mind, and sometimes even inhabit it.
It follows, then, that every avid reader has a favorite literary character — whether they’re beloved for dastardly deeds, tough-girl antics, sex appeal, or a high snark quotient — and that there are many impossibly good ones out there. After the jump, you’ll find 50 of the best. To be clear: a great character isn’t always one you like (just ask Claire Messud), but one that is somehow extraordinary, or evokes some kind of delicious story-feeling in the reader. As always, this list reflects the personal tastes and proclivities of its creator, and many great characters didn’t make the cut (Jo March, Huck Finn, Merusault, Anne Shirley, looking at you), so if your favorite isn’t on here, and them on in the comments. Mary Katherine Blackwood, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson.
85 Jack Kerouac Quotes For The Traveler Inside You. Jack Kerouac was a free thinker, visionary, philosopher, rebel, co-founder of the beat generation with an insatiable wanderlust and perpetual love for the unknown and adventure.
He lived, and like many of us today, questioned life, questioned his existence. His life was a series of passion and ecstasy and searching. Even though it’s been almost 50 years since his passing, young adults can relate to his “madness” now more than ever. The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop.
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. The only truth is music. Don’t use the phone. 46 Brilliant Short Novels You Can Read In A Day. 15 Captivating Autobiographical Books That Mix Fact and Fiction. There's fiction and non-fiction, and then there are the endless book genres between.
One of these hybrid genres is autobiographical fiction, when an author chooses to tell a real experience, or the full story of their life, as a fictional account. It is usually written like a memoir, featuring first-person narration from the protagonist that is meant to be the author. An author might choose autobiographical fiction to distance themselves from the events they're writing about, to make major changes for the sake of the story, or because they don't want to hurt people who appear in their writing. This differs from authors who have been exposed for fabricating books presented as memoir (A Million Little Pieces), or those who deny that their books are based on real events and have gotten into trouble for it (The Help).
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